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The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty. Our backslidings are many. Jer. xiv. 7.

In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards. We might have . . . beat them backward home. Shak.

e, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news.

In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably; seriously.

A man of bad character. [Obs.] Holland.

A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen. Thackeray.

r scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. [Obs.] The bail of a canoe . . . made of a human skull. Capt. Cook.

justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester. [Eng.] Oxf. Gloss.

The action of bailing a person accused. Bailment . . . is the saving or delivery of a man out of prison before he hath satisfied the law. Dalton.

In a hot or baking manner.

In a baleful manner; perniciously.

In manner to balk or frustrate.

Balloon net, a variety of woven lace in which the weft threads are twisted in a peculiar manner around the warp.

The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.

A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.

In a balmy manner. Coleridge.

A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front. A man who uses his balmorals to tread on your toes. George Eliot.

A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.

A fabric made in Manilla from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis).

To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate. Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation. I. Watts.